Curated playlist
Wars involving Australia
- Iraq WarAt 5:34 in the morning on the 20th of March 2003, Baghdad time, the United States began bombing Iraq. There was no declaration of war. Within weeks, a government that had ruled Iraq for decades was gone, its leader captured in a hole in…
- Vietnam WarThe Vietnam War began on the 1st of November 1955 and did not end until the 30th of April 1975 - nearly two decades of armed conflict across Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia that would consume millions of lives and reshape the world order. At…
- Second Boer WarThe Second Boer War began on the 11th of October 1899, when Boer forces crossed into British-held Natal and the Cape Colony. What followed was a conflict that would last nearly three years, involve 180,000 British troops at its peak, and…
- Gulf WarThe Gulf War pitted Iraq against a coalition of 42 countries led by the United States. On the 2nd of August 1990, Iraq invaded its small neighbor Kuwait and occupied the country within two days. Behind that invasion sat a tangle of…
- Malayan EmergencyThe Malayan Emergency began on the 17th of June 1948, the day three European plantation managers were shot dead in the office of the Elphil Estate near Sungai Siput by three young Chinese men. What followed was a twelve-year guerrilla war…
- Anglo-Iraqi WarThe Anglo-Iraqi War began in earnest at 05:00 on the 2nd of May 1941, when 33 aircraft lifted off from RAF Habbaniya into the pre-dawn dark. Below them, surrounding the base on a plateau to the south, sat roughly 9,000 Iraqi troops with 50…
- Korean WarAt 4:40 in the morning on the 25th of June 1950, the Korean People's Army crossed the 38th parallel behind a wall of artillery fire. Within an hour, troops were striking all along that line. Within three hours, individual units had pushed…
- World War IIWorld War II killed between 60 and 75 million people, making it the deadliest conflict in history. Tanks and aircraft reshaped the battlefield, and aircraft carried out the strategic bombing of cities. Aircraft also delivered the only…
- World War IWorld War I began with two pistol shots fired in a Sarajevo street on the 28th of June 1914. Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, had taken his position after the Archduke's car made a wrong turn. Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian…
- War on terrorOn the morning of the 11th of September 2001, nineteen men hijacked four jet airliners, all of them bound for California. They told passengers a bomb was on board and that lives would be spared once demands were met. No passenger suspected…